Understanding Driving Stress in Urban Bangladesh: An Exploratory Study, Wearable Development and Experiment

Rony, Rahat Jahangir and Ahmed, Md. Sabbir and Sarcar, Sayan and Ahmed, Nova (2024) Understanding Driving Stress in Urban Bangladesh: An Exploratory Study, Wearable Development and Experiment. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2 (2). pp. 1-28. ISSN 2834-5533

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Abstract

Driving stress significantly impacts driving behavior primarily from roadside factors, where driving is more challenging in developing countries (i.e., Bangladesh) for unique cultural and infrastructural setups. We conduct an exploratory study (Qualitative n = 26, and Subjective Feedback n = 80) and a correlational analysis involving professional and private car drivers in urban Bangladesh. The study reveals drivers' demography and driving stress factors on the road. These findings motivate us to identify driving stress from physiological factors by developing a low-cost wearable, Stress Wear. This can detect stress from varying Heart Rates, validated by expensive commercial wearables. Between subject experiments on drivers (total n = 14 in two phases) with wearables, we also found that road factors are responsible for driving stress. Therefore, the developed system is helpful for these drivers to self-sense their stress.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1145/3648434
Dates:	Date Event 1 January 2024 Accepted 14 February 2024 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Drivers, Driving Stress, Poor Road Infrastructure, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Low-Cost Wearable, Developing Country Context
Subjects:	CAH11 - computing > CAH11-01 - computing > CAH11-01-01 - computer science
Divisions:	Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > College of Computing
Depositing User:	Gemma Tonks
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2024 15:10
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2024 15:10
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15702

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